Nice information, but, how would one switch back to PCL? For that matter, where did you get that information and is it on the internet somwhere?
TIA, Karl On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 14:21, Ron White wrote: > I don't have any specific knowledge of Epson printers > but on HP you can cause the printer to shift to postscript > personality by sending then following: > > PRINT CHAR(27):'%-12345X': > PRINT '@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PostScript' > > This turns off the default PCL processing and enables > postscript. > > Ron White > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony Dzikiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 1:53 PM > Subject: [U2] [OT]Postscript to a Laser on Dumb Term Aux Port > > > > I know there must be a way to do this. I thought Id ask so it would save > a > > lot of aggravation. We have a bunch of dumb terminals (vt100 emulation) > > with printers attached to the printer port. Currently, we have Epson > > printers attached and are printing ascii text to a pre-printed form. I > > would like to use laser printers with postscript. So, I am experimenting > > with a postscript file that I would like to print via the aux port. What > > Ive done is to write a test program to open the aux port via control > codes, > > then cat the postscript file, then close the aux port. What prints out is > > the postscript verbatim. I suppose 'cat' is not the way to go, but some > > kind of 'binary' method that says to the printer to not interpret as > ascii. > > Does anyone know the magic word for this ? We are using Universe on Red > Hat > > Linux. > > Thanks > > Anthony > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > --- > > [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] > > > > > > > > > --- > [ Eckel certifies this E-mail to be virus free. ] > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ -- Karl L. Pearson Director of IT, ATS Industrial Supply Direct: 801-978-4429 Toll-free: 888-972-3182 x29 Fax: 801-972-3888 http://www.atsindustrial.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
